 When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and...  The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven - Side 187av Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Beethoven Association - 1921Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Kuno Francke, William Guild Howard - 1914 - 616 sider
...is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. It is the wine which inspires new creations, and I am the Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for men and intoxicates their spirit! * * * I have no friend and must ever be alone, but I know that God... | |
 | Morse Peckham - 1981 - 388 sider
...of the inarticulate and verbally clumsy Beethoven, as translated and given form by Bettina Brentano. "When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is...wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken." For a purpose which I shall make clear in a moment, I should like to translate Schopenhauer's terms... | |
 | Maynard Solomon - 2003 - 356 sider
...once widely cited letter to Goethe dated 28 May 1 8 10, in which she reported Beethoven as saying: "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and...wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken." OG Sonneck, Beethoven: Impressions of Contemporaries (New York: Schirmer, 1926), p. 8o. And it may... | |
 | John W. Casperson - 2007 - 258 sider
...my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than wisdom and philosophy, the wine which inspires one...wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken." 9 In an age of political correctness this final line may not land with the reader as it would have... | |
 | John W. Casperson - 2007 - 258 sider
...my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than wisdom and philosophy, the wine which inspires one...glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken."9 In an age of political correctness this final line may not land with the reader as it would... | |
 | Alessandra Comini - 2008 - 498 sider
...revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, the wine which inspires one to a new generative process, and I am the Bacchus who presses out this glorious...wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.' "161 This mixed metaphysical metaphor — crossing spirituality with sensuality — would have tremendous... | |
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